Brian Fowler

Brian P. Fowler, P.Geo. (a registered professional geologist), is president, CEO and a director of Northstar Gold Corp. (CSE: NSG), a Vancouver-based junior company exploring its 100%-owned Miller copper-gold property near Kirkland Lake, Ontario. He is known for the company's "surgical mining" plan at the Cam Copper project — a proposal to mine a narrow, high-grade copper zone through large-diameter boreholes instead of a conventional mine, aiming for early cash flow with roughly $1.5 million of upfront capital. For investors tracking small copper-gold developers, Fowler is the geologist setting that direction and the qualified person behind Northstar's technical disclosure.

His record spans more than 40 years. Fowler holds a BSc in geology from the University of Alberta (1981) and spent 1991 to 2004 at Placer Dome, where he managed regional exploration and feasibility-stage work on projects including Musselwhite in Ontario, Mount Milligan and the Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell copper-gold district in British Columbia. He was exploration manager for Quadra Mining from 2004 to 2005, evaluating copper projects in Canada, the United States, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Australia. As a founder, officer or director of juniors including BCGold Corp., Laurentian Gold Fields, RedQuest Capital and Engineer Gold Mines, he raised more than $20 million in the capital markets before listing Northstar on the Canadian Securities Exchange in January 2020.

At Cam Copper, the target is Zone 2, a steeply dipping VMS (volcanogenic massive sulphide — metal-rich material deposited on an ancient seafloor) horizon of chalcopyrite and bornite traced over about 125 metres of strike and 200 metres of depth, open at depth. Drilling there has returned 3.05% copper, 5.9 g/t (grams per tonne) gold and 22.9 g/t silver over 3.07 metres, plus a 13.95% copper intercept deeper in the system. Under a July 2025 letter of intent with Novamera, Northstar would evaluate extracting about 116,000 tonnes of Zone 2 material over roughly 31 months through 93 large-diameter surface holes, with Novamera earning a 5% revenue share. Fowler is explicit that this is a conceptual Exploration Target (75,000 to 140,000 tonnes at 9–18% copper) — an early, unverified estimate, not a National Instrument 43-101 (Canada's mineral disclosure standard) mineral resource — and that no production decision has been made.

The pilot sits inside an $11 million "Surgical Mining for Critical Minerals" project run with Novamera and Micon International through the DIGITAL supercluster, which approved up to $4 million in co-investment; Northstar received the first payment of $627,663 in July 2026. Fowler has committed to commissioning a 43-101 technical report and mineral resource estimate and to securing permits before any extraction. Following him means watching a live test of whether precision mining can turn small, high-grade critical-mineral deposits into self-financing exploration companies, with Northstar's Miller gold drilling — including 8.0 g/t gold over 15 metres in 2020 — as a parallel value driver.